Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/oxc-project/oxc/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/oxc-project/oxc/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: oxc and zed share 6 technologies: Tokio, console, handlebars, schemars, tracing, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

# oxc vs zed

oxc and zed share 6 technologies: Tokio, console, handlebars, schemars, tracing, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

- [oxc-project/oxc](https://seerepo.com/r/oxc-project/oxc): ⚓ A collection of high-performance JavaScript tools.
- [zed-industries/zed](https://seerepo.com/r/zed-industries/zed): Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Tokio, console, handlebars, schemars, tracing, tracing-subscriber
- Only in oxc: React, Preact, Vue, Ajv
- Only in zed: axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, lru, Postgres, sqlx, AWS S3, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, smol, objc2-foundation, objc2-app-kit, tiny_http, core-services, swash, gpui_platform, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-quartz-core, objc2-ui-kit, x11rb, core-graphics, wayland-client, taffy, xkbcommon, cosmic-text, dialoguer, jsonwebtoken, rpassword, markdown, image, quick-xml, pulldown-cmark, html5ever, linkify, plist, resvg, ttf-parser, jsonschema, log, env_logger

## Side by side

| | oxc | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 1,151,882 lines written, 3,112 code files | 1,835,785 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 1.9% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex | 0.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI |
| Activity | Last push November 4, 2026, 21,872 commits, 23,321 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 37,547 commits, 92,679 stars |
| Tests | 5,900 test files. 2.7% of its code files have a test that imports them | 140 test files. 18.1% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, oxc or zed?

zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; oxc has 1,151,882.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

### Which has more GitHub stars, oxc or zed?

zed, with 92,679 stars; oxc has 23,321.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed on GitHub](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed)

### Which has more tests, oxc or zed?

oxc, with 5,900 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: [oxc-project/oxc's code at commit 3d3a6f4](https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc/tree/3d3a6f468068a3794a44c0e83e9177bd61ea2c00)

### Which was updated more recently, oxc or zed?

Both got their last push on November 4, 2026.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, oxc or zed?

oxc: an AI signed 1.9% of its commits, with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex; in zed, 0.5%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in oxc-project/oxc](https://seerepo.com/r/oxc-project/oxc/ai)

## Sources

- oxc-project/oxc: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 3d3a6f4 (https://github.com/oxc-project/oxc/tree/3d3a6f468068a3794a44c0e83e9177bd61ea2c00)
- zed-industries/zed: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit e21ff1b (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.